ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1918, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S,: GEORGE WALSH IN NEW FOX FEATURE TO-NIGHT. Fun rampant is the only phrase which can be used to describe the newest production in which George Walsh appears for William Fox, "The Book Agent," which will be shown at Everybody's theatre to-night and to-morrow. George, takes the part of a wandering peddler of tomes, who combines with his keen business ability a genial personality that wins friends in the midst of enemies. Harry Kelly is the man's name. Because he attracts the attention 1 of Crandall Barker (William Burress), a wealthy invalid, he becomes attached to his staff as a sort of personal attendant. Then Kelly learns-of. an attempt on Barker's. life, and, with the assistance of a pretty nurse (Doris iPawn), he frustrates it. In the end, Kelly marries the nurse, who turns out to he none other than Barker's own granddaughter, and the heiress to' all his millions. Kelly stops selling books. Girls rush in where villains fear to tread. Two, three, or a dozen men have, thus far in George's photographic work, been unable to best the King of Smiles. But in this new production a mere band of seminary girls succeed in doing what scores of men have failed in. They conquer George, from head to heel, and drag him into the school study. The strength and power which he has exhibited in a hundred thousand feet of film are his no more. George is satisfied, so will you be alter Being this splendid production "The Book Agent." Supporting films include a clever Cartoon novelty and a two-reel L.K.O. comedy entitled "A Double's Trouble." THE EMPIRE. .ALICE BRADY IN BIG FEATURE AT THE EMPIRE. The new programme at the Empire last night proved a most interesting one, and was heartily enjoyed by the large audience present. The main item was a World Film five-reel drama, starring the popular Alice Brady under the title of "The Maid of Belgium." The picture tells the story of a Belgian refugee brought to America by wealthy Americans who find her half crazed by the destruction of her home and the loss ,of her friends and relatives. Adoree is her name and she is brought to America by the Americans. There her childish ways and her sweet winsomeness arouses a desire in the heart of the man for a child of his own. His wifo promises that the deepest de'sire of his heart will he fulfilled when he returns from a necessary trip of several months duration to Cuba. While he is gone a child is born to Adoree and Adoree is induced to part with it as the American woman promises that she will care for the infant tenderly. When the man returns from Cuba, Adoree's child is presented to him as his own.. The shock of losing her child restores to Adoree the memory which she had lost at th» de:iruction"of her home. She recalls her marriage arid the sudden departure of her husband to the front. Adoree's child is finally given back to her and she is reunited* to her husband, who has come to America to secure funds for the Belgian relief. Other intensely interesting items of this programme are "History of the War" (4th series) and the latest Patho Gazette, all of which will be repeated again tonight and to-morrow.